Jim's Beer Kit

Oh how i wish i knew what hops i acutally got in the freezer. SWMBO keeps passing comment I've got too many. I should show her this thread and she would realise how few I have got. I am only allowed the smallest drawer in the frezer and still have to share it with bags of peas!

I wouldn't have said it was the worse piece of crap i bought, but the item i bought for brewing that has been the most unused is a budget pressure barral. Only used it once and then bought cornies and never turned back. However I can't help but noticing they seem to be breading in my celler when i'm...

Used my fridge for this 1st time this week. Brewed on Monday evening and put it into the fridge to ferment had have had by best ever fermentation, It had reached 1008 by yesterday morning so a full fermentation in under 4 days! Until i got the fridge I've been struggling to get under 1014. I am so g...

I've finally remembered to take a pic of my poor man's electric brewery controller! After reading what you want to built i am very jelious and now are thinking of upgrade i can do! however i do say this very simple unit has served me well and done 20 brews and made things much easier. I have also in...

I have a larder fridge like this, have lager fv in at moment. I ran my cable through that hole at first but it froze up the back wall of fridge as condensation had nowhere to drain. I had not thought about that being an issue. I will keep a close eye on it and check it regally. I guess that only ti...

I've got a pair of crimpers like them and they are very good. Mine must be coming up for around 12 years old and still going strong. Used them for many years as part of my job and never warned them out!

That look fantastic!

Good work.

Hi, I brewed this single hop Citra last weekend and will be bottling it tommrow. Fermented it with US-05 Fermentable Colour lb: oz Grams Ratio Pale Malt 5 EBC 11 lbs. 0.4 oz 5000 grams 90.9% Golden Syrup 30 EBC 1 lbs. 1.6 oz 500 grams 9.1% Hop Variety Type Alpha Time lb: oz grams Ratio Citra Whole 1...

Hi Barney,

Is this what you are after? I have it lieing around and don't need it so would sell it if your interested. I might also have some 6mm flex for 32A cables if your interested.

Hi, I have built a very very rough electric brewery board mine just has a pair of 40A contactors, not SSR's, I am needing to upgrade some of the connectors, and I was going to use this version of the powercon connecter as its 20A not 16A http://www.neutrik.com/en/audio/powercon/powercon-20-a/ I have...

Having now brewed a number of beers, thought it was time to get a Fermenting Fridge! I managed to pick up of fleebay for a tenner a tall larder fridge and set to yesterday carrying out a few modifications! My plan is to be able to fit in 2 x 30L FV's as i often do a double brew day. New Fridge (with...

I use a fire extinguisher for my CO2 and its been fine and a standard C02 regulator fitted it. However I not needed to get it refilled yet! That might be where it lets me down!

I got a load of bottles from my local, I put a donation in their charity box for there time to collect the. They were very helpful.

I have also used flexable tap connectors and removed the rubber tubes from the inside and are on my Mash Tun and are very effective and very cheep from screwfix

I've just made an all apollo brew very simular. I will be bottling it at the weekend and can let you know how it went. I also saw their citrus's notes and thought i'd give it ago after having made an all citra hops beer this summer which was realy nice and my normal supplier didn't have any citra ho...